Highest Life Expectancy

82.6

Japan

Lowest Life Expectancy

39.6

Swaziland

Average Life Expectancy

68.9

continent Average Life Expectancy Lowest Life Expectancy Country with Lowest Life Exp Highest Life Expectancy Country with Highest Life Exp
Africa 54.81 39.61 Swaziland 76.44 Reunion
Americas 73.61 60.92 Haiti 80.65 Canada
Asia 70.73 43.83 Afghanistan 82.6 Japan
Europe 77.65 71.78 Turkey 81.76 Iceland
Oceania 80.72 80.2 New Zealand 81.24 Australia

Africa shows markedly lower life expectancy figures compared to other continents, reflecting significant developmental challenges.

Europe and Oceania demonstrate the most consistently high life expectancies, while Asia and the Americas show greater variability, indicating diverse development stages within these regions.

Gapminder Dataset (2007)
country continent year lifeExp pop gdpPercap iso_alpha iso_num
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This data comes from the python plotly.express library’s gapminder dataset, which is originally sourced from the Gapminder Foundation.

The Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increasing use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development.

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